单选题
When I was graduating from college,my generation also found the world in a
32 .The economic machinery had broken
33 almost everywhere:In this country nearly a quarter of the
34 was out of work. A major war seemed all
35 likely.As a college newspaper editor at that time,I protested against this
36 as vehemently as student activists are protesting today.
I wonder if this blandness of our diet doesn’t explain
37 so many of us are overweight and even dangerously so.When things had flavor, we knew what we were eating all the
38 — and it satisfied us.A
39 of my mother-in-law’s wild strawberry jam will entirely satisfy your j am desire.But,of the
40 tinned or glass-packed strawberry jam,you need half a cupful to get the
41 of what you're eating.
Literacy may not be an inalienable human right,but it is
42 that the highly literate Founding Fathers might not have found unreasonable or even
43 .We are not only not attaining it
44 a nation,statistically speaking,but we are falling further and further
45 of attaining it.And,while 1 would not be so simplistic as to suggest that television is the cause,I believe it
46 and is an influence.
To share a bedroom with one of these fellows is to lose one’s
47 in human nature,for, even after the
48 eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them,no midnight confidence,no casting
49 the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain.They sink,
50 once,into stupid,heavy slumber,leaving you to your own
51 devices.And they all snore abominably!
Downtown,she
52 her car in a garage.Everything was getting ready for this moment.She did not carry the flowers in her
53 but she carried them in her heart.Now she was going to find out
54 it was death or life.Either
55 could tolerate.It did not
56 to her that the newsreel might not be there.